A California man has pleaded guilty to writing code that used a security flaw in AT&T's iPad interface to exposed thousands of high-profile user's personal information.
Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to gain unauthorised access to computers connected to the internet and one count of identity theft. He admitted helping to write the code that enabled the theft of data from AT&T, and then helping publish it online.

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